We are different - but the same

This week, we have been learning about what makes us unique - but also, what we have in common with others in our class. We're really proud of our work because we know that we are special and our writing reflects that. One thing that we are really surprised about is that we have more in common with each other than we thought.

Check our writing in the slide deck below.

Welcome to 2020

Hi everyone and welcome back to 2020.

This year, Room 9 is a Year 4 & 5 class with a bunch of great learners. We have lots of different cultures in our classroom and lots of things that make us different, but also lots of things that we have in common. We're excited to learn lots this year and we are looking forward to having lots of fun!

Prize Giving in the Park

Prize giving in the park 2019

Tonight, we celebrated our learning by attending the Prizegiving in the park.

The awards for the Middles:

Middle Music Award - Bullard

Middle Arts Award - Ngwe Sin
Middle Sports Award - Tali 

Middle Dux - Ngwe Sin
Top Middle Girl - Catherine
Top Middle Boy - Bullard 

I am so proud of everyone! Go ROOM 9! 

Ngwe Sin's Diwali Art

Check out Ngwe Sin's Diwali Art that she did with Ms Chand in Room 10 during our Art Rotation

"Be like Pita"

Have you ever failed at something and felt like you couldn't do it? 

Then we want you to BE LIKE PITA. 

This is a story about a boy who didn't do too well in a test at school. His circle of friends wanted to help him but it wasn't that easy. 

Before you watch it, take a guess at what you think happened. 

Lights, Camera, Action!

First Music Session

Today we had our first music session with our teacher. We were learning about musical terms. Our first task was to find all the letters around the classroom, some were hidden and others weren't. Once we found them all we had to unscramble the letters and figure out what the words were. Some of the words were hard, especially OSTINATO.

We were taught a song to help us learn what the different words mean. Today's words are

Here is a song that we learnt today about what these words mean 

Happy Holidays!

Hope you guys enjoy your holidays hope to see Room 9 bloggers blog about fun things they are doing hope everyone is enjoying their good long sleep and see you Room 9 in 2 weeks!

Swimming lesson with Whaea Moe

Today we had Whaea Moe from Swim NZ come into our class and talk to us about being safe in the water. She taught us a little poem to help us remember some things about being safe in the water

In the water 

On the water 

Around the water

Children must be supervised 

All the time 

Every time 

Cross Country/Fun Run 2019

We had our Cross Country and Fun Run today. When the day started, it was cloudy and grim and a storm was meant to come. So the event got moved forward into the morning block. It was tiring but still a really good day. Have a look at some of the photos below ...

Fitness with Alesio

On Monday we met two of the Personal Trainers from GI Snap Fitness. They came in to meet with us and to let us know that they'll be coming back on Thursday to do some fun activities around being healthy and staying fit.

Today, Alesio came in and we were ready to get a good work out! We were so happy that the weather was sunny because we had our session outside.

We did lots of running, pushups, jumping, burpees and start jumps.

By the end of the session we were so tired but we were so glad we did it because we had lots of fun!

Thank you Alesio and Snap Fitness Glen Innes for coming into our class and working with us. We hope to see you again!

Here we are with Alesio, our trainer after we had our session with him